"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) O "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky O
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill O Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw O
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') O "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben O
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) O And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin O
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. O blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola O
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) O Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben O
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner O I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein O
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington O Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) O
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) O A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William O
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost O Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup O
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) O Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin O
